and purple serpents in her hair

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[haticesultanas]

Queen Naerys—the one woman Aegon IV bedded in whom he took no pleasure—was pious and gentle and frail, and all these things the king misliked. Childbirth also proved a trial to Naerys, for she was small and delicate. When Prince Daeron was born on the last day of 153 AC, Grand Maester Alford warned that another pregnancy might kill her. Naerys was said to address her brother thus: “I have done my duty by you, and given you an heir. I beg you, let us live henceforth as brother and sister.” We are told that Aegon replied: “That is what we are doing.” Aegon continued to insist his sister perform her wifely duties for the rest of her life.

[bericdondarrion]

Game of Thrones meme » [1/ 2] queens » Jeyne Westerling

“Jeyne is bright as well as beautiful. And kind as well. She has a gentle heart.“

[carlosmoya]

“I have fought beside the Young Wolf in every battle,” Dacey Mormont said cheerfully. “Hehas not lost one yet.”No, but he has lost everything else.

[carlosmoya]

lanabolena made me choose between robb stark & jon snow

[witchofthekorcari]

[daceydayne]

asoiaf meme: [5/6] houses || House Targaryen Every child knows that the Targaryens have always danced too close to madness. King Jaehaerys once told me that madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born , he said, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.

[leroichevalier]

→  The Half year queen and the rogue prince // Lee Pace (younger) + Jason Isaacs (older) Daemon Targaryen, Alison Pill (younger) + Megan Follows (older) as Rhaenyra Targaryen

[kittenbalerion]

Pre-ASOIAF Meme → 1/1 Queen: Alysanne Targaryen

Two estrangements are recorded, but they did not last more than a year or two before the pair resumed their customary friendship. The Second Quarrel, however, is of note, as it was due to Jaehaerys’s decision in 92 AC to pass over his granddaughter Rhaenys—the daughter of his deceased eldest son and heir, Prince Aemon—in favor of bestowing Dragonstone and the place of heir apparent on his next eldest son, Baelon the Brave. Alysanne saw no reason why a man should be favored over a woman…and if Jaehaerys thought women of less use, then he would have no need of her. They reconciled in time, but the Old King outlived his beloved queen, and in his last years it was said that the grief of their parting hung over his court like a pall.

[sirgawin]

Pre-ASoIaF characters: Rhaella Targaryen

Rhaella Targaryen was the sister, wife and queen of King Aerys II, “The Mad King”, and mother to Prince Rhaegar, Prince Viserys and Princess Daenerys. Throughout her marriage to Aerys, Rhaella was subjected to multiple violent outbursts by her husband. According to Ser Barristan Selmy, Queen Rhaella did all she could to protect her young son Viserys from the king’s descent into madness. After Prince Rhaegar’s defeat by Robert Baratheon at the Trident, the pregnant Queen Rhaella and her son Viserys evacuated King’s Landing to the ancestral Targaryen seat of Dragonstone. Nine months later, during a heavy storm that destroyed the remaining Targaryen fleet, Queen Rhaella gave birth to Princess Daenerys, and died later from complications during the birth. 

[sansalayned]

Some historical ladies from House Targaryen (requested by anonymous)

Gaia Weiss as Daenys, Katheryn Winnick as Visenya, Rosamund Pike as Rhaenys, Skye Lourie as Rhaena, Janet McTeer as Alysanne, Megan Follows as Rhaenyra, Mélanie Thierry as Helaena, Yael Grobglass as Naerys, Claire Holt as Daena, Clémence Poésy as Daenerys (Aegon IV`s daughter), Eleanor Tomlison as Rhaelle, and Charlize Theron as Rhaella.

[femme-de-lettres]

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Edmund Blair Leighton painted Stitching the Standard in 1911.

Stitching the Standard doesn’t have the literary specificity of many of Leighton’s artistic forbearers (the Pre-Raphaelites particularly). As Sotheby’s writes, it “does not depict a particular Guinevere, or Lily Maid of Astolat; she is a nameless damsel of the Middle Ages with no story to tell.”

I’d disagree, though, that she has no story to tell: as she sits, stitching her banner, she tells a story all her own.

Simply dressed, but wearing a delicate diadem, she prepares a standard—presumably for war. The calm of the painting belies the violence that implies.

[dontjustbesorry]

[steverogexs]

“For me, it’s not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It’s interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It’s about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it’s overcoming it.”

[daceydayne]

i will learn to love the skies i am under

[daceydayne]

moodboards

The Targaryen Conquerors

[sansastvrrk]

Sophie Turner for Glamour Mexico (July 2015)

[abigailcowen]

“I was good, I was very, very good. You are even better.“

[ariiimaterll-deactivated2018120]

The wild wolf, the quiet wolf, the she-wolf and the pup.

[shireenthestormqueen-archive]

[daceydayne]

Willas would be Lord of Highgarden and she would be his lady. She pictured the two of them sitting together in a garden with puppies in their laps, or listening to a singer strum upon a lute while they floated down the Mander on a pleasure barge.